knowledge\knowl"edge\ (?), n. [oe. knowlage, knowlege, knowleche, knawleche. the last part is the icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to as. l&amacr;c, goth. laiks dance. see know, and cf. lake, v. i., lark a frolic.]1. the act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition. knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions.2. that which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural. there is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. knowledges is a term in frequent use by bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import. w. hamilton. to use a word of bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges. spencer.3. that which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. viii. 1. ignorance is the curse of god; - knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.4. that familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life. shipmen that had knowledge of the sea. 27.5. scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge. why have i found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me? --ruth ii. 10.6. sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning. Knowledge can refer to a theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); it can be more or less formal or systematic. In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called epistemology; the philosopher Plato famously defined knowledge as "justified true belief", though "well-justified true belief" is more complete as it accounts for the Gettier problems. However, several definitions of knowledge and theories to explain it exist.

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MeaningA small amount of knowledge can cause people to think they are more expert than they are and consequently make unwise choices. OriginA little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) - An Essay on Criticism .

Justified true belief (until the introduction of the Gettier problem). See epistemology.&ltDiscussion&gt &ltReferences&gt P. Mandik Knowledge that enters into the production of behaviors and/or the constitution of mental states but is not ordinarily accessible to consciousness. See also cognize, knowledge, implicit memory, Background, rules. &ltDiscussion&gt &ltReferences&gt Daniel Barbiero

[L:72] In the Logic Kant sharply distinguishes opinion, belief, and knowledge, which are the three "modes of holding-to-be-true", three kinds of judgment "through which something is presented [i.e., represented] as true". Knowledge is the strongest mode of judgment of truth and is apodeictic: "what I know, I hold to be apodeictically certain, i.e. to be universally and objectively certain", although Kant suggests that we can make this judgment about "a mere empirical truth". [L:78] This kind of knowledge--"or certainty"--is a judgment of truth by on "a cognitive ground that is both objectively and subjectively sufficient". There are two kinds of knowledge (certainty), empirical and rational. Rational certainty is mathematical (in which case it is intuitive certainty) or discursive; all rational certainty is apodeictic. By contrast, "empirical certainty" is not apodeictic (And thus not, strictly speaking, knowledge?) but assertoric. Kant comments, "we cannot have rational certainty of everything, but where we can have it, we must prefer it to the empirical". [A320/B377] In the Critique, Kant's first definition of knowledge--as "objective perception"--occurs early in the Dialectic. Kant gives this "definition" in the midst of an appeal not to use the term `idea' loosely, but to follow his terminology for the various kinds of representations; the passage rather confusingly invokes many earlier distinctions. Kant writes: "The genus is representation in general. Subordinate to it stands representation with consciousness. A perception which relates solely to the subject as the modification of its state is sensation, an objective perception is knowledge. This is either intuition or concept....The concept is either an empirical or a pure concept". [A822/B850] Much later in the Dialectic Kant speaks of knowledge in the terms of the Logic, writing "the holding of a thing to be true...has the following three degrees: opining, believing, and knowing....when the holding of a thing to be true is sufficient both subjectively and objectively, it is knowledge....Objective sufficiency is termed certainty". Presumably the "empirical knowledge"--experience--discussed in the Aesthetic and Analytic is different from this, which Kant characterizes (and then presumably goes on to critique) as "the transcendental employment of reason". In the Deduction in B, KAnt speaks of the understanding as "the faculty of knowledge"--presumably empirical knowledge of appearances. "This knowledge consists in the determinate relation of given representations to an object; and an object is that in the concept of which the manifold of a given intuition is united", suggesting, as he does later, a coherence theory of (the nature of) truth. Of course, there is no kind of this knowledge beyond experience.

the final goal of the understanding in combining intuitions and concepts. If they are pure, the knowledge will be transcendental; if they are impure, the knowledge will be empirical. In a looser sense, 'knowledge' also refers to that which arises out adopting any legitimate perspective.

(v. t.)
To acknowledge. (v. i.)
The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition. (v. i.)
That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural. (v. i.)
That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. (v. i.)
That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life. (v. i.)
Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge. (v. i.)
Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

1. The sum of what is known; a body of truths, principles, and information. 2. Specific information required for the student to develop the skills and attitudes for effective accomplishment of the jobs, duties, and tasks.

Many acts are perfectly innocent when the party performing them is not aware of certain circumstances attending them. For example, someone may pass a counterfeit note and be criminally guiltless if they did not know it was counterfeit. Or someone may receive stolen goods if they were not aware of the fact that they were stolen. In these types of cases it is the guilty knowledge, or scienter, which makes the crime.

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

wiedza f ...advances in scientific knowledge... All knowledge comes to us through our senses... He has a detailed knowledge of international law. (of language etc ) znajomość f to have no knowledge of nic nie wiedzieć na temat +gen I have no knowledge of his present whereabouts. not to my knowledge nic mi o tym nie wiadomo "Does he have a regular job?" "Not to my knowledge." without my knowledge bez mojej wiedzy They did it without my knowledge. she has a working knowledge of French potrafi się porozumieć po francusku it is common knowledge that ... powszechnie wiadomo, że ... It's common knowledge that all politicians are liars.

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